ICE CREAM

Everyone knows that one of the greatest challenges of the summer season (aside from not screaming every time you see a wasp), is eating your ice cream before it melts. Although sunshine and a 99 flake...

Hailing from Mumbai, I ate a ton of ice cream every summer. It was a tasty way to beat the heat. After I started foodnetindia, however, I realised that a lot of what I ate back then might not have bee...

Back in the day, the aroma of nolen gur (date palm jaggery) wafting through the house used to be a very winter thing. We had to longingly wait all year for the earthen pitchers dripping with the fresh...

It was not that ice cream was scarce, but it was something that needed to be earned. You couldn't just get it, like say a piece of barfi or pedha which was always there in the fridge or the kitchen. To get a small cup of vanilla ice cream, you had to either get good grades, or do housework, or demonstrate exemplary behaviour. Naturally, many of us didn't get any ice cream for months.